In 'Master,' starring Regina Hall and Amber Gray, Mariama Diallo mixes horror, drama, and social critique into one masterful debut feature. Our Sundance2022 review.
Horror being used as an allegory for racism has become familiar in recent years. Films like Get Out and the recent Candyman have fully leaned into the horrors of racism in America. In Master, three Black women face the struggle of finding their place in the elite Northeastern university, Ancaster College . One is the newly appointed "Master" of a residence hall, one is a popular professor up for tenure, and one is a freshman starting her first year at the institution.
At multiple points in the film, each woman is faced with the microaggressions and racism of the institution they are a part of. Gail is repeatedly told to leverage her position as the "first Black woman to be the Master" by her non-Black colleagues. She is burdened with the position of being the first and with the desire to see real change in the influencing of young minds. Her intentions are good, but she is facing up against a beast.
Although she launches a complaint against Liv, her interactions with Liv and Gail are among the few in the film that are not laced with overt and subtle racism. Her classmates either fetishize her or terrorize her. At her first party, she dances among other white students to a rap song that she likes, but the joy is soon sucked out of the experience, as the white guys start shouting the lyrics with full force .
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